Mission

Artist's concept of InSight on Mars (image: JPL/NASA)

Space

Next Mars mission – after Curiosity comes InSight

NASA has announced that its next mission to Mars will be the InSight lander, to be launched in 2016.

Image of the Venusian atmosphere at 60km over the south pole (yellow dot) using Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on board Venus Express (Image: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA/University of Oxford)

Space

Venus atmosphere unexpectedly measured by drag

Scientists have accidentally discovered that the atmosphere on Venus is 60 percent thinner than expected by measuring drag of the Venus Express satellite.

Science

NASA live broadcast of LCROSS impact

The lunar impact of NASA's Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite is being broadcast live on NASA's own TV channel on October 9th

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter hitches a ride with an Atlas V/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida(Photo: Scott Andrews)

Space

LRO - a giant leap for data transfer from the moon

Even at 238,000 miles away, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) keeps in touch with the Earth 24 hours a day, transmitting 461GB of data per day at speeds of to 100Mb/s.

The AMREL HC-2 features a Windows XP interface and 128GB solid state drive (Image: AMREL)

Military

AMREL announce the HC-2 military computer

AMREL have announced the release of their latest wearable military communication equipment, the HC-2.

An artist's impression of the LRO spacecraft taking hi-res images of the moon's surface (Image: Chris Meaney/NASA)

Science

The search for ice on the moon heats up

Special sensing technology developed by Raytheon Company for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system is aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), one of two spacecraft hoping to find photographic evidence that the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Until now, man hasn’t been